cp -r on windows prompts for confirmation

[AdamRzepka]

cp -r dir_a dir_b translates to xcopy /e dir_a dir_b

If dir_b does not exist (which is probably the most common case), xcopy prompts:

Does include specify a file name
or directory name on the target
(F = file, D = directory)?

You can use /i switch to suppress this and always assume 'directory'.

Note that, creating a directory before copying doesn't help much. If destination dir already exist, behavior of cp and xcopy is different: xcopy copies only content of source directory, while cp copies also source directory itself.

[sagiegurari]

thanks... will check it out. by the way, if this is for cargo make, you might want to replace your shell script to duckscript which is consistent on all platforms.

[AdamRzepka]

Thank you! I'll take a look at duckscript.